Okay, I’m really sorry about reblogging this twice. There’s no meaning to this, I just felt like being nostalgic XD.īut anyway the majority of discourse, like seriously 99.9% of it, is just this:īut we’ll just keep making the spaces, until they get overrun again. AO3 culture is livejournal culture and we also used to tag pairing types for exactly the reason olderthannetfic describes, to help people who were interested in a certain kind of pairing to find it.Īnyway this was a tiny comm but here’s the stats: Incidentally, I ran a multifandom challenge community on livejournal from 2005-2008. It’s time those of us who like fandom stats took responsibility for lopsided, AO3-centric narratives and the social damage they can do. This has led to very skewed understandings of what fic fandom as a whole looks like–skewed understandings that help bullies go after m/m content with the pretense that they’re striking back against The Man. Other sites don’t give a fuck about queer content and make it hard to get shipping stats. It also makes it easy to get shipping stats. (Yes, even those of you complaining about “straight girls” and “fetishization”.) I’m tired of these bad takes being given a pass.ĪO3′s metadata is designed to put queer content on the same level of importance as straight content. Anyone who repeats the myth that most fanfic is m/m is furthering an anti-queer narrative whether they mean to or not. Some people who prefer AO3 themselves will take this to mean that only AO3 is relevant, but that’s like standing in the gay bookstore going, “Gosh, it sure is sad that there aren’t any STRAIGHT bookstores! Think of the hets!”Īny fool you see doing this is helping the people who hate queer content to shit on that queer content. They also both have more fanworks, arguably, though Wattpad works tend to be very short, and FFN’s rate of new works is falling behind AO3′s. #The higher lower games full#Put simply, AO3 is full of m/m and has a high proportion of fics with multiple ship types as well as a higher proportion of f/f than many spaces (though still not a high percentage).įFN and Wattpad are both popular, both active, and both full of het and gen. If I never again see a hand-wringing thinkpiece about what AO3′s m/m percentage meeeeeans and how it must indicate that No One likes female characters, it will be too soon. The reality is that AO3, like parts of tumblr, is a rare island of amorphous queerness, floating in a vast ocean of het-as-default spaces. Sometimes, people try to pit m/m and f/f against each other, but I don’t think actual site stats bear out that kind of approach. The preponderance of m/m on AO3 is impressive, but it’s also unusual. I’ve gotten increasingly weary of fujoshi-haters moaning about AO3 as though it’s The Establishment and needs to be rebelled against. This is what my charts from a few weeks ago were for. Here’s my portion of the GGC fandom stats panel.
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